New year, new me, new you, same pandemic! It's time to revisit Grinding the Stream for February 2021. As per usual, I'm including as many movies as I can per each category as I scour Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Peacock, Fandor, Shudder, Tubi, Midnight Pulp (a "+" will be included wherever subscription fees apply), VUDU’s free selections, The Roku Channel, Popcorn Flix, Crackle, Dark Matter TV, Night Flight, Shout Factory TV (though most of their titles can also be watched via Amazon Prime). Arrow started their own paid service recently, so I'm going to start including them where applicable.
Again, be warned – all of the free apps have ad breaks (I know, it sucks) and the video quality is inconsistent from app to app. Sometimes it's genuine HD, other times, it's sub-VHS. I've also included links to my own reviews of some of these films.
UK Cult and Horror
Hammer Films
The Revenge of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1958) – The Roku Channel
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Terence Fisher, 1959) – Amazon Prime
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Terence Fisher, 1959) – The Roku Channel and Tubi
The Gorgon (Terence Fisher, 1964) – Tubi, The Roku Channel, Popcorn Flix, and Dark Matter TV
Fanatic (aka: Die! Die! My Darling; Silvio Narizzano, 1965) – Pluto TV
Rasputin the Mad Monk (Don Sharp, 1966) – Dark Matter TV
Twins of Evil (John Hough, 1971) – Amazon Prime and Shudder
Hands of the Ripper (Peter Sasdy, 1971) – Amazon Prime and Shudder
Countess Dracula (Peter Sasdy, 1971) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (Michael Carreras and Seth Holt, 1971) – Dark Matter TV
Fear in the Night (Jimmy Sangster, 1972) – VUDU Free
Vampire Circus (Robert Young, 1972) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Tubi, Popcorn Flix, and Dark Matter TV
Satanic Rites of Dracula (Alan Gibson, 1973) – Midnight Pulp, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix (warning, this particular movie is in the public domain and image quality tends to suck)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Terence Fisher,1974) – Amazon Prime, HULU, and Popcorn Flix
Amicus Movies
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (Freddie Francis, 1965) – Roku Channel, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
They Came from Beyond Space (Freddie Francis, 1967) – Amazon Prime and Shout Factory TV
The House That Dripped Blood (Peter Duffell, 1971) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Pluto TV, Shout Factory TV, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
Tales from the Crypt (Freddie Francis, 1972) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Shout Factory TV, and Tubi
Asylum (Roy Ward Baker, 1972) – Amazon Prime, Fandor, Tubi, and Shout Factory TV
And Now the Screaming Starts! (Roy Ward Baker, 1973) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Pluto TV, Shout Factory TV, and Tubi
The Beast Must Die (Paul Annett, 1974) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Pluto TV, Shout Factory TV, and Tubi
The People That Time Forgot (Kevin Connor, 1977) – Amazon Prime
The Monster Club (Roy Ward Baker, 1981) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, and Tubi
Richard Adams’ Distressing Animated Animal Double-Feature
Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978) – Criterion Channel and HBO Max
The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen, 1982) – Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, and Shout Factory TV
BONUS: The less traumatic Watership Down CG animated series is on Netflix
Other UK Horror Movies/Thrillers
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) – Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, The Roku Channel, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
Death Line (aka: Raw Meat; Gary Sherman, 1972) – Criterion Channel, Night Flight, and Popcorn Flix (under Raw Meat alternate title)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) – Criterion Channel
Horror Hospital (Antony Balch, 1973) – Amazon Prime, Tubi, Pluto TV, and Shout Factory TV
Exposé (aka: The House on Straw Hill; James Kenelm Clarke, 1976) – Tubi and Popcorn Flix
Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984) – Shudder, Night Flight, and Tubi (WARNING: Maybe don't watch this if you're feeling anxious about the state of the world)
White of the Eye (Donald Cammell, 1987) – Amazon Prime, Tubi, and Shout Factory TV (British filmmakers shooting in Arizona)
Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall, 2002) – Popcorn Flix
French (and Belgian) Horror (and Adjacent)
Carnival of Sinners (Maurice Tourneur, 1943) – Criterion Channel
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) – Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and The Roku Channel
Eyes without a Face (French: Les Yeux sans visage; Georges Franju, 1960) – Criterion Channel and HBO Max
Daughters of Darkness (French: Les lèvres rouges; Harry Kümel, 1971) – Criterion Channel, Tubi, and VUDU Free
The Shiver of the Vampires (Jean Rollin, 1971) – Tubi
Grapes of Death (French: Les Raisins de la mort; Jean Rollin, 1978) – Midnight Pulp
The Living Dead Girl (Jean Rollin,1982) – Tubi
Haute Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2003) – Tubi
Them (French: Ils; David Moreau and Xavier Palud, 2006) – Shudder
Sheitan (Kim Chapiron, 2006) – Shudder and Popcorn Flix
Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017) – Shudder
Let the Corpses Tan (Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet, 2017) – Amazon Prime and Shudder
Ravenous (French: Les affamés; Robin Aubert, 2017) – Netflix
Ghostland (aka: Incident in the Ghost Land; Pascal Laugier, 2018) – Shudder
Knife + Heart (French: Un couteau dans le cœur; Yann Gonzalez, 2018) – Shudder
The Night Eats the World (French: La nuit a dévoré le monde; Dominique Rocher, 2018) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
BONUS: Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012) – The Roku Channel, Tubi, Popcorn Flix, Pluto TV, and Shout Factory TV (not horror, but fun for horror fans)
German and Austrian Horror
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
The Golem: How He Came into the World (Carl Boese & Paul Wegener, 1920) – Amazon Prime
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) – Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, The Roku Channel, and Tubi
Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926) – YouTube
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) – Criterion Channel and HBO Max
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932) – Criterion Channel and HBO Max
Horrors of Spider Island (Fritz Böttger, 1960) – Amazon Prime
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)– Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Peacock, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Tubi, and Midnight Pulp +
Nekromantik (Jörg Buttgereit, 1987) – Midnight Pulp +
Der Todesking (Jörg Buttgereit, 1990) – Midnight Pulp +
Nekromantik 2 (Jörg Buttgereit, 1991) – Midnight Pulp +
The Burning Moon (Olaf Ittenbach, 1992) – Amazon Prime and Midnight Pulp + (shot on VHS)
Schramm (Jörg Buttgereit, 1993) – Midnight Pulp + and Tubi
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, 2014) – The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Tubi
Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld, 2018) – Amazon Prime and Shudder
Luz (Tilman Singer, 2019) – Shudder, Crackle, and Popcorn Flix
Spanish Cult and Horror
Paul Naschy Movies
Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (Spanish: Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo; León Klimovsky, 1972) – Tubi
Vengeance of the Zombies (Spanish: La rebelión de las muertas; León Klimovsky, 1973) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Devil’s Possessed (Spanish: El Mariscal del infierno; León Klimovsky, 1974 – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Guillermo del Toro Horror Movies
I honestly don't know if we count these as Mexican, Spanish, or both
Cronos (1993) – Criterion Channel and HBO Max
Mimic (1997) – Pluto TV (I'm not sure if this is the theatrical or director's cut)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Spanish: El laberinto del fauno, 2006) – Netflix
The Shape of Water (2018) – HULU
Jess Franco Movies
Franco made movies for Spanish, German, and French companies, but was Spanish himself, so I’m putting him here. Be warned, his films are an...acquired taste.
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968) – Amazon Prime
Two Undercover Angels (1969) – Amazon Prime
Venus in Furs (1969) – Tubi
The Girl from Rio (1969) – Tubi
Kiss Me Monster (1969) – Amazon Prime
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) – Amazon Prime and Shout Factory TV
The Bloody Judge (1970) – Amazon Prime
Count Dracula (1970) – Tubi and Midnight Pulp +
Vampyros Lesbos (1971) – Midnight Pulp +
She Killed in Ecstasy (1971) – Midnight Pulp +
Jack the Ripper (1976) – Amazon Prime
Ilsa, the Mad Butcher (1977) – Night Flight
The Sadist of Notre Dame (Spanish: El sádico de Notre-Dame, 1979) – Midnight Pulp +
Cannibal Terror (1980) – Night Flight
Devil Hunter (Spanish: El caníbal; aka: The Man Hunter, 1980) – Midnight Pulp + and Night Flight
White Cannibal Queen (aka: Mondo Cannibale, 1980) – Tubi
Bloody Moon (1981) – Midnight Pulp +, Tubi, and Night Flight
Oasis of the Zombies (1982) – Midnight Pulp and Tubi
Golden Temple Amazons (co-directed with Alain Payet) 1986 – Tubi and Night Flight
Juan Piquer Simón Horror Movies (...for the most part)
Other Spanish Horror Movies
Fangs of the Living Dead (Amando de Ossorio, 1969) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
The Blood Spattered Bride (Spanish: La novia ensangrentada; Vicente Aranda, 1972) – Amazon Prime
The Cannibal Man (Spanish: La semana del asesino; Eloy de la Iglesia, 1972) – Amazon Prime
Tombs of the Blind Dead (Amando de Ossorio, 1972) – VUDU Free, and Popcorn Flix
Bell from Hell (Claudio Guerín & Juan Antonio Bardem, 1973) – Tubi
The Ghost Galleon (Amando de Ossorio, 1974) – Amazon Prime
Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Spanish: Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti; aka: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie; Jorge Grau, 1974) – Amazon Prime, VUDU Free, Night Flight, and Midnight Pulp +
The Possessed (aka: Demon Witch Child; Amando de Ossorio, 1975) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
In a Glass Cage (Spanish: Tras el cristal; Agustí Villaronga, 1986) – Midnight Pulp + and Tubi
[REC] (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza; 2007 and 2009) – Crackle
Fragile (Spanish: Frágiles; Jaume Balagueró, 2005) – The Roku Channel and VUDU Free
Sleep Tight (Spanish: Mientras duermes; Jaume Balagueró, 2011) – Shudder and Tubi
Veronica (Paco Plaza, 2017) – Netflix
Errementari: Blacksmith of the Devil (Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017) – Netflix
South Korean Cinema
Park Chan-wook Movies
Joint Security Area (aka: JSA, 2000) – Criterion Channel and Arrow
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) – Criterion Channel, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Popcorn Flix, Tubi, and Midnight Pulp +
Three...Extremes (with Fruit Chan & Takashi Miike, 2004) – Amazon Prime
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) – Criterion Channel, Midnight Pulp + (also “fade to black & white version”), Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
The Handmaiden (theatrical cut, 2016) – Amazon Prime
Bong Joon-ho Movies
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) – HULU
The Host (2006) – HULU and The Roku Channel
Tokyo! (with Michel Gondry & Leos Carax; 2008) – The Roku Channel
Mother (2009) – HULU, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Crackle, and Tubi
Snowpiercer (2013) – Netflix
Okja (2017) – Netflix
Parasite (2019) – HULU
Kim Ki-duk Movies
The Isle (2000) – Midnight Pulp
Bad Guy (2001) – Midnight Pulp
The Coast Guard (2002) – Tubi
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) – Amazon Prime, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Tubi
3-Iron (2004) – Amazon Prime, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Tubi
Samaritan Girl (2004) – VUDU Free and Midnight Pulp
Time (2006) – Tubi
Dream (2008) – Tubi
Pieta (2012) – VUDU Free and Tubi
Moebius (2013) – Tubi and Popcorn Flix
One on One (2014) – Amazon Prime
The Net (2016) – Amazon Prime
Kim Jee-woon Movies
The Quiet Family (1998) – Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, and Midnight Pulp
The Foul King (2000) – Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, and Midnight Pulp
A Tale of Two Sisters (2005) – Shudder, Criterion Channel, Midnight Pulp +, and Popcorn Flix
Bittersweet Life (2005) – Midnight Pulp and Pluto TV
I Saw the Devil (2010) – VUDU Free, Roku Channel, Crackle, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
Doomsday Book (co-directed with Yim Pil-sung, 2012) – Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, and Dark Matter TV
The Last Stand (2013) – Amazon Prime and HULU
Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018) – Netflix
Korean Horror/Thrillers
Acacia (Park Ki-hyung, 2003) – Midnight Pulp (under Root of Evil title)
A Bloody Aria (2006) – Midnight Pulp
Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (Kim Tae-kyung, 2007) – Midnight Pulp
Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo, 2010) – Amazon Prime, Midnight Pulp, and Tubi
Horror Stories (Lim Dae-Woong, Kim Gok, Kim Sun, Jung Bum-shik, Hong Ji-young, Min Kyu-dong, 2012) – Midnight Pulp and Tubi
The Wailing (Na Hong-jin, 2016) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, and Tubi
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016) – Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, VUDU Free, Crackle, Popcorn Flix, and Tubi
Seoul Station (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016) – Shudder, VUDU Free, Roku Channel, and Tubi (animated prequel to Train to Busan)
Ghost School Horror Series
Whispering Corridors (Park Ki-hyung, 1998) – Midnight Pulp
Memento Mori (Min Kyu-dong & Kim Tae-yong, 1999) – Midnight Pulp
Wishing Stairs (Jae-yeon Yun, 2003) – Midnight Pulp
Bollywood Horror Movies/Fantasy Movies/Thrillers
Note that there is a subscription service call YuppTV that has a lot of Bollywood cult films, but I cannot speak to its quality. There are also dozens more movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime that I've not seen, so if you're enjoying the movies listed here, give them a shot too.
Woh Kaun Thi? (Raj Khosla, 1964) – Amazon Prime
Gumnaam (Raja Nawathe, 1965) – Amazon Prime
Saboot (Shyam & Tulsi Ramsay, 1980) – Amazon Prime
The Old Temple (Shyam & Tulsi Ramsay, 1984) – Amazon Prime
Nagina (Harmesh Malhotra, 1986) – Amazon Prime
Mansion of Evil (aka: Purani Haveli; Shyam & Tulsi Ramsay, 1989) – Amazon Prime
Raat (Ram Gopal Varma, 1992) – Amazon Prime
Suryavanshi (Rakesh Kumar, 1992) – Amazon Prime
Mahakaal ("Indian Nightmare on Elm Street"; Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay, 1994) – YouTube
Sangharsh ("Indian Silence of the Lambs"; Tanuja Chandra, 1999) – YouTube
Bhoot (Ram Gopal Varma, 2003) – Netflix and Amazon Prime
1920 (Vikram Bhatt, 2008) – Netflix and Amazon Prime
Horror Story (Ayush Raina, 2013) – Netflix
The House Next Door (Milind Rau, 2017) – Netflix
Ghost Stories (Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap & Zoya Akhtar, 2017) – HULU
Mohini (Ramana Madhesh, 2018) – Amazon Prime
Tumbbad (Rahi Anil Barve, 2018) – Amazon Prime
Indonesian Action and Horror
Satan's Slave (Sisworo Gautama Putra, 1980) – Shudder
Mystics in Bali (H. Tjut Djalil, 1981) – YouTube
The Queen of Black Magic (Lilik Sudjio, 1981) – Shudder
Witch with the Flying Head (Chang Ren-Chieh, 1982) – YouTube
Dangerous Seductress (H. Tjut Djalil, 1992) – YouTube
Ritual (Joko Anwar, 2012) – Amazon Prime, The Roku Channel, and Tubi
Badoet (Awi Suryad, 2015) – Tubi
Headshot (Timo Tjahjanto & Kimo Stamboel, 2016) – Netflix
Danur (Awi Suryadi, 2017) – Netflix
Satan's Slaves (remake, Joko Anwar, 2017) – Shudder
Santet (Helfi C.H. Kardit, 2018) – Amazon Prime, VUDU Free, and Tubi
Kuntilanak (Rizal Mantovani, 2018) – Netflix
May the Devil Take You (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018) – Netflix
The Night Comes for Us (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018) – Netflix
Triple Threat (Jesse V. Johnson, 2019) – Netflix and Popcorn Flix
The Queen of Black Magic (remake Kimo Stamboel, 2019) – Shudder
Impetigore (Joko Anwar, 2019) – Shudder
May the Devil Take You Too (Timo Tjahjanto, 2020) – Shudder and The Roku Channel
Mexican Horror
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (Spanish: La momia azteca contra el robot humano; Rafael Portillo, 1958) – Amazon Prime
The Curse of the Doll People (Spanish: Muñecos infernales; Benito Alazraki, 1961) – Tubi
Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Jerry Warren, Rafael Portillo & Gilberto Martínez Solares, 1965) – Amazon Prime
The Specter's Road (Gilberto Martínez Solares, 1967) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Satanic Pandemonium (Spanish: La Sexorcista; Gilberto Martínez Solares, 1975) – Tubi
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989) – Tubi
We Are What We Are (Spanish: Somos lo que hay; Jorge Michel Grau, 2010) – HULU
Come Out and Play (Makinov, 2012) – VUDU Free and Tubi (remake of the superior Spanish film, Who Can Kill a Child, 1976)
Tigers are Not Afraid (Issa López, 2017) – Shudder and The Roku Channel
La llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019) – Shudder
Eddie Romero’s Filipino Horror
Terror Is a Man (co-directed by Romero and Gerardo de Leon, 1959) – Midnight Pulp +
The Blood Drinkers (co-directed by Romero and Gerardo de Leon, 1964) – Midnight Pulp +
Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Twilight People (1972) – Amazon Prime and Night Flight
Australia and New Zealand
Oz/Kiwisploitation
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Tubi, and Midnight Pulp
Inn of the Damned (Terry Bourke, 1975) – Tubi and Night Flight
Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978) – Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, and Midnight Pulp
Patrick (Richard Franklin, 1978) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Midnight Pulp +, and Popcorn Flix
Thirst (Rod Hardy, 1979) – Amazon Prime and Popcorn Flix
Harlequin (aka: Dark Forces; Simon Wincer, 1980) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Dead Kids (aka: Strange Behavior; Michael Laughlin, 1981) – Amazon Prime, Midnight Pulp +, and Popcorn Flix
The Survivor (David Hemmings, 1981) – Midnight Pulp +
Turkey Shoot (aka: Escape 2000; Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1982) – Amazon Prime, Shudder, Popcorn Flix, Midnight Pulp +, and Night Flight
Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982) – Shudder, The Roku Channel, Midnight Pulp +, and Tubi
BMX Bandits (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1983) – Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, Shout Factory TV, and Popcorn Flix
Death Warmed Up (aka: Death Warmed Over; David Blyth, 1985) – Amazon Prime, VUDU Free, Dark Matter TV, Midnight Pulp +, Night Flight, and Tubi
Dead End Drive-In (1986) – Tubi
Frog Dreaming (aka: The Quest; Brian Trenchard-Smith Movies, 1986) – Amazon Prime
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987) – Amazon Prime, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
The Howling III (Philippe Mora, 1987) – Amazon Prime, VUDU Free, Tubi, and Popcorn Flix
Incident at Raven's Gate (Rolf de Heer, 1988) – Tubi and Popcorn Flix
Meet the Feebles (Peter Jackson, 1989) – Tubi
Body Melt (Philip Brophy, 1993) – Amazon Prime, Tubi, and VUDU Free
Modern Aussie Cinema
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
The Loved Ones (Sean Byrne, 2009) – Amazon Prime
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018) – HULU
International Grab Bag
Estonia
November (Rainer Sarnet, 2017) – VUDU Free
Finland
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) – HULU, Amazon Prime, VUDU Free, Crackle, Popcorn Flix, and Tubi
Dogs Don't Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, 2019) – Shudder
Greece
Island of Death (Nico Mastorakis, 1976) – Amazon Prime, Arrow, and Midnight Pulp +
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009) – Shudder and Tubi
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) – Netflix
Iran/Persian Language
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014) – Criterion Channel and Shudder
Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari, 2016) – Netflix
Jamaica
The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972) – YouTube
Rockers (Ted Bafaloukos, 1978) – Amazon Prime and Tubi
Shottas (Cess Silvera, Lyndale V. Pettus & Adam Doench, 2002) – Amazon Prime, The Roku Channel, Tubi, and Pluto TV
Netherlands
The Lift (Dick Maas, 1983) – Night Flight and Tubi
The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988) – Criterion Channel
Amsterdamned (Dick Maas, 1988) – Shudder, Night Flight, and Tubi
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, 2013) – VUDU Free, Popcorn Flix, and Tubi
Russia
Viy (Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov, 1967) – Shudder and Tubi
The Bride (Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, 2017) – Amazon Prime